Sadly, after 66 years in the area, she said it’s hard to see the community fall victim to such vandalism.

“It’s upsetting because most people want to live in a nice, clean neighborhood, and this graffiti is making it all worse,” she said. “It’s terrible because it makes the whole neighborhood look downscale.”

John Scanlon, owner of Pelham Bay Home Center at 3073 Westchester Avenue, said a slew of businesses in the area were also targeted.

“At least 10 places got graffitied in a two block radius,” he said, pointing out that his gate and wall were both hit in the past week with the word See, as was seen in many other instances, among other tags.

Police Officer Pasquale Pappalardi, the 45th Precinct’s graffiti officer, said that while he hasn’t identified the culprit by name, he expects it to be one young teenage boy who’s trying to earn street credit by slapping his symbol on as many sites as possible.

“I guess it’s because of the feast, and he wants to show everyone his tag,” he explained about St. Theresa’s 12th Annual Summer Feast that took place nearby on St. Theresa Avenue, between Edison and Hobart avenues, from July 23-27.